OMF Senior Financial Accountant at Old Mutual

Job Description

• Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 2800 employees with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches we offer insurance, lending products as well as servicing.  
• Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Senior Financial Accountant.
• This role will report to the Financial Manager of Old Mutual Finance and include reporting deliverables for Old Mutual Finance as well as Old Mutual Transaction Services as needed.
• It requires an individual with a passion for financial management, driving reporting timelines of financial results and execution on the business plan, while managing governance and compliance at an operational level.
• This position is individually accountable for achieving results through others, over periods of three months to one year.

Key responsibilities will include amongst others the following:

• Supporting the Financial Manager on the interpretation of complex financial data and predictive results, providing commentary on financial results and implications and advising on corrective action to be taken
• Develops, reports on, and interprets cost drivers, KPIs and benchmarks
• Generating internal management reports
• Reviewing internal management reports
• Preparation of slides for Committee meetings
• Preparation of Annual Financial Statements
• Analyses and reports on variances
• Audit management, tax management as well as governance and compliance
• Responsibility for audit liaisons as per tax, legislative and statutory requirements
• Ensuring tax workings and returns are in line with Group Tax and statutory requirements
• Accountability for governance and compliance at an operational level
• Maintaining a suitable financial control environment
• Providing insights into accounting policies and technical opinions, where relevant
• Continuous evaluation of financial processes and driving process optimization within the relevant teams
• Management of others
• Providing input into ad hoc projects, directly within or outside of the broader Finance team

Qualifications, Skills and Experience required:

• Chartered Accountant Qualification
• 4-5 years post articles experience,
• Articles preferably from a large audit firm
• Experience in a Financial Services organization
• Banking experience advantageous
• IT skills – excellent Excel skills required
• Tax experience advantageous
• Strong work ethic, self-motivated and demonstrable high standards of achievement
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in diverse teams as well as independently
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with multiple priorities and deliveries under tight deadlines
• Ability to work with complex financial data sets and provide insights and recommendations
• Excellent attention to detail

Skills

• Accounting, Action Planning, Budget Management, Business Requirements Analysis, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Evaluating Information, Financial Accounting, Financial Acumen, Financial Analysis, Financial Auditing, Financial Modeling, Management Accounting, Report Review

Competencies

• Builds Effective Teams
• Business Insight
• Communicates Effectively
• Ensures Accountability
• Financial Acumen
• Manages Complexity
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Organizational Savvy

Education

• Bachelors Degree (B): Chartered Accountancy (Required)

Closing Date

• 07 August 2025, 23:59